appreciation

See also: appréciation

English

Etymology

From French appréciation. Morphologically appreciate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌpɹiː.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

appreciation (countable and uncountable, plural appreciations)

1. The act of appreciating.
2. A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence; gratitude and esteem.

   We give to you this trophy as a token of our appreciation of all your years of service.

3. Accurate perception; true estimation.

   an appreciation of the difficulties before us

   an appreciation of colors

   • 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:

     The English, until relatively recently, seem to have imagined “English” and “British” to be interchangeable, as if Britain was just a bigger England. Our dualism gave us a better appreciation of the nation-state we lived in, though if Britain was a “nation” as well as a “state”, where did that leave Scotland?

   • 1874, John Richard Green, History of the English People, Volume I:

     His foreboding showed his appreciation of Henry's character.

4. A rise in value.

Alternative forms

• 'preciation (pronunciation spelling)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “rise in value”): depreciation

Derived terms

• appreciational
• capital appreciation bond
• inappreciation
• misappreciation
• nonappreciation
• reappreciation
• shared appreciation mortgage
• unappreciation
• underappreciation

 

Related terms

• appreciate

Translations

a just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence

Arabic: تَقْدِير (ar) (taqdīr) Bulgarian: благодарност (bg) (blagodarnost), висока оценка (visoka ocenka) Czech: ocenění n Dutch: waardering (nl) f Finnish: arvostus (fi), kiitollisuus (fi) French: appréciation (fr) f Galician: apreciación (gl) f German: Anerkennung (de) f, Würdigung (de) f, Dankbarkeit (de) f, Wertschätzung (de) f, einschätzung f Hebrew: הערכה f (haarakhá) Hindi: प्रशंसा (hi) f (praśansā) Hungarian: értékelés (hu), megbecsülés (hu), méltánylás (hu), elismerés (hu), méltatás (hu) Italian: apprezzamento (it), gratitudine (it), stima (it) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: پێزانین (pêzanîn) Malay: penghargaan Maori: whakamaiohatanga Ottoman Turkish: تقدیر (takdir) Polish: uznanie (pl) n Portuguese: apreciação (pt) f Romanian: apreciere (ro) f Russian: благода́рность (ru) f (blagodárnostʹ), призна́тельность (ru) f (priznátelʹnostʹ), высо́кая оце́нка f (vysókaja océnka) Swedish: uppskattning (sv) c Welsh: gwerthfawrogiad (cy) m

accurate perception; true estimation; as, an appreciation of the difficulties before us; an appreciation of colors

Bulgarian: разбиране (bg) (razbirane), отчитане (bg) (otčitane), оценяване (bg) (ocenjavane) Czech: zhodnocení n, ohodnocení n Finnish: arviointi (fi) French: estimation (fr) f, évaluation (fr) f German: Beurteilung (de) f, Würdigung (de) f, Wertschätzung (de) f Hebrew: הערכה f (haarakhá) Hungarian: megértés (hu), felfogás (hu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: تەقدیر (teqdîr) Portuguese: apreciação (pt) f Russian: оце́нка (ru) f (océnka)

a rise in value;—opposed to depreciation

Czech: zhodnocení, stoupnutí v ceně c Finnish: arvonanto (fi), arvonnousu (fi) French: appréciation (fr) f Galician: apreciación (gl) f Georgian: გაძვირება (gaʒvireba), ღირებულების ზრდა (ɣirebulebis zrda), გამყარება (gamq̇areba) (of currency exchange rate) German: Wertzunahme f Hungarian: felértékelődés (hu), értékemelkedés (hu) Malay: naik nilai Maori: pikinga wāriu Polish: aprecjacja (pl) f Portuguese: apreciação (pt) f Russian: повыше́ние це́нности n (povyšénije cénnosti), вздорожа́ние (ru) n (vzdorožánije) Spanish: apreciación (es) f

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Japanese: (please verify) 感謝 (ja) (kansha)